Sidney Lawrence Platt

  Birth Notes:

http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/atchison/atchison-co-p36.htmll

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&indiv=try&h=48929386

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=7602&iid=004118420_00189&fn=Sidney+S&ln=Platt&st=r&ssrc=&pid=3012732

And

https://archive.org/stream/historyoffresnoc02vand/historyoffresnoc02vand_djvu.txt

And

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/52000915/person/26456149466/facts?_phsrc=gZZ1629
&_phstart=successSource

And

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Sidney-L-Platt/7302463

  Death Notes:

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=CADeathRecs&h=950955&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2221

And

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Sidney-L-Platt/7302463

  Burial Notes:

https://billiongraves.com/grave/Sidney-L-Platt/7302463

  Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/atchison/atchison-co-p36.htmll

And

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=CAGreatRegisters&h=3647120&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7602

And

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26483045/whiting_visitor_feb_18_1927_fannie_owen/?xid=637

• Census: USA, 1880. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&indiv=try&h=48929386

• Census: Kansas, 1875. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1088&iid=ks1875_1-0467&fn=Sarah&ln=Platt&st=r&ssrc=&pid=3631950

• Emigration: USA, 1896. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=762284&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2221

• Census: USA, 1900. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=7602&iid=004118420_00189&fn=Sidney+S&ln=Platt&st=r&ssrc=&pid=3012732

• Census: USA, 1910. 1910 federal census, Fresno, Fresno Co, California

Platt, Sidney L. head age 44, married once, married 17 years, b. Africa-English, f. Eng.- English, m. Eng- English, immigrated 1867, citizen (Naturalized), stockholder, planning mill

Platt, Irene M. wife, 40, married once, married 17 years, 2 children, 2 children living, b. Minnesota, f. New York, m. Ire - Irish, no occupation.

Platt, Lawrence, 12, son, California

Platt, Kenneth, 8, son, California

• Census: USA, 1920. 1920 federal census, Fresno, Fresno Co, California

Platt, S. L. head, age 54, married, b. Africa, f. England, m. England, immigrated 1868, partner planning mill

Platt, Irene, wife, age 51, married, b. Minnesota; f. New York, m. Ireland

Platt, Lawrence, son, age 22, single, b. California, f. Africa, m. Minn.

Platt, Kenneth, son age 18, single, b. California, f. Africa, m. Minn.

• Census: USA, 1930. 1930 federal census Fresno, Fresno Co, California

Platt, Kenneth L. head, age 65, age 27 at 1st marriage, b. Africa, father England, mother England, immigrated 1890, naturalized citizen, treasurer, Planning mill Co, (Yes the entry says Kenneth, but this appears to be our Sidney, Jr.)

Platt, Irene M. wife, age 61, age 23 at 1st marriage. b. Minnesota, father b New York, mother b. North Ireland, no occupation.

Platt, Kenneth L. son, age 28, single, b. California, father b. Africa, mother b. Minnesota, salesman electrical store.

• Occupation. Bookkeeper
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/2221/32421_227308-00698/3679304?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-c%26gsfn%3dsidney%26gsfn_x%3dNIC%26gsln%3dplatt%26gsln_x%3dXO%26msbdy%3d1863%26msbdy_x%3d1%26cpxt%3d1%26uidh%3diof%26msbdp%3d1%26cp%3d0%26pcat%3dCEN_1910%26h%3d3679304%26db%3dCAGreatRegisters%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d8&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

• General Comment. SIDNEY L. PLATT. \emdash Among the substantial and enterprising citizens of Fresno is Sidney L. Piatt, secretary and treasurer of Madarv's Planing Mill Company of Fresno, occupying quarters at No. 1805 Anna Street. Mr. Piatt, who is of English parentage, was born in Africa, May 25, 1864. His father was a missionary, and when Sidney L. was a child three years of age the family removed to Boston, Mass., going thence to Atchison County. Kans., where young Sidney was brought up on a farm. He experienced the usual lot in life that falls to a farmer's son, attended the country schools, and later supplemented his schooling with a business education obtained at Emporia, Kans. He came to Fresno in January, 1888, intending to make a visit of a few weeks, but like many other of California's Eastern visitors, was so fasci- nated with Fresno's wonderful beauty, the salubrity of her climate and the bright prospects of her financial future, that he has been there ever since. He secured employment in the office of the Mechanic's Planing Mill, at the corner of H and Inyo Streets. A year and a half later the mill burned, and Mr. Piatt became deputy tax collector for one season under tax collector A. D. Ewing. The company rebuilt the mill one block south of the old location, and Mr. Piatt returned to their employ. Some time later he entered the employ of Mr. M. A. Madary in his planing mill, as chief of office, and in 1905, when Madary's Planing Mill was incorporated, became secretary and treasurer of the company, the position he now holds. He is one of the owners of the mill, of which Mr. Madary is president and A. M. Loper vice-president; and he is also part owner in a valuable fruit ranch owned by the company, consisting of forty acres of orange trees in full bearing, ten acres of two-year-old trees, and thirty acres of peaches in bearing.

Mr. Piatt married Miss Irene Thayer, a native of Minnesota. They have two sons. Lawrence T. aged twenty-one, passed through the Fresno public schools and the Military Academy at San Rafael and entered Stanford University. Shortly after the United States entered the World War. he en- listed in the Naval Reserves, and in November, 1917, became attached to the special dispatch boat U. S. S. Broadbill. He saw service in the Pacific and assisted in the capture of the German raider in those waters. He then went to Seattle and became attached to the L T . S. S. West Ekonk, and sailed to San Francisco and New York City via the Panama Canal, going thence to Brest, France, in convoy. He returned to New York, and on November 4, 1918. sailed for Genoa, Italy, as captain of the gun crew. He is now on his second trip. The second son, Kenneth Lloyd, aged seventeen, was a student in the Fresno public schools, and is now a student in the Fresno high.

https://archive.org/stream/historyoffresnoc02vand/historyoffresnoc02vand_djvu.txt

Sidney married Irene Minnie Thayer, daughter of Unknown and Anna. (Irene Minnie Thayer was born in Sep 1868 in , Minnesota, USA, died on 27 Mar 1938 in Fresno, California, USA and was buried in Fresno, California, USA.)